Evaluation of a dustbathing substrate and straw bales as environmental enrichments in commercial broiler housing
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: broiler chicken, dustbathing, environmental enrichment, leg health, welfare
2018
Does the anticipatory behaviour of chickens communicate reward quality?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anticipatory behaviour, chickens, conditioning, dustbath, rewards
2016
Stimuli from feed for sham dustbathing in caged laying hens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: feed stimuli, laying hens, sham dustbathing, welfare
2016
An ethological approach to determining housing requirements of gamebirds in raised laying units
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour-based needs, gamebird welfare, raised laying units, red-legged partridge, ring-necked pheasant
2015
Astroturf as a dustbathing substrate for laying hens
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: astroturf, dustbathe, furnished cage, hen, sand, welfare
2013
The welfare of laying hens in conventional cages and alternative systems: first steps towards a quantitative comparison
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, cages, egg production, housing, laying hens
2013
Review of wallowing in pigs: Description of the behaviour and its motivational basis
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, motivation, mud pool, pigs, wallowing behavior, wallowing behaviour
2011
Effects of social rank and familiarity on dustbathing in domestic fowl
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dominance, dustbath, familiarity, laying hen, social rank
2010
Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, dustbathing, european starling, manoeuvrability, passerine, sturnus vulgaris, water bathing
2009
Hens are motivated to dustbathe in peat irrespective of being reared with or without a suitable dustbathing substrate
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: behavioral need, behavioural need, domestic chicken, dustbathing, gallus gallus domesticus, push-door, rearing, welfare
2008